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THE HIGHER METAPHYSICS 



THE 
HIGHER METAPHYSICS 

BY 

ELIZABETH DELVINE KING 

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Author of <<r Trie Lotus Park," Etc. 




SIXTEEN LESSONS 



Published by 

J. F. ROWNY PRESS 

Los Angeles, Cal. 
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Copyright 1918 
by 

ELIZABETH DELVINE KING 

Los Angeles, Cal. 



MAR 14 |9| 8 



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Dedication 

In the Light of the Golden Glow of 

Love Divine, We Dedicate This 

Book to All Seekers for 

Enlightenment 



Table of Contents 

PART ONE 

Table of Contents 5 

Preface 7 

General Introduction 9 

" Man, Know Thyself" 12 

Prayer 15 

Faith 19 

Application 23 

Man as He Is and as He Seems to Be 28 

Reality 32 

PART TWO 

' ' God Rests in Action " 35 

Wisdom 37 

One Presence 40 

Bounty 43 

Love 45 

The Christ Consciousness 48 

Realization 50 

Completeness 51 

Mastership 54 



PEEFACE 

In presenting these sixteen lessons in The Higher Meta- 
physics, our hope is to assist those who so desire, to pass on- 
ward from the mental or intellectual perception (and prac- 
tice) of the working hypothesis of the Omnipresent Reality, 
into the spiritual or esoteric ; — that sweet essence, the Father's 
love, care and bounty, which is omnipotent. 

That men may, through enlightenment and devotion, rend 
the veil, and pierce the illusive shadows with the sword of 
truth. Thus anchored and enlightened, man is able to live his 
life ; and prove his God-given dominion over the tempter (his 
own carnal nature). When this is accomplished, man has 
passed out from the illusive forest, — carnality. 

Then man's next effort is to bring his body (the temple) 
into redemption, according to the pattern, the example of 
Jesus. ' ' Follow thou me, ' ' said Jesus. 

Jesus said, "Ye shall know the Truth, and the Truth shall 
make you free." Thus we perceive knowledge is necessary 
to man, as he moves along the Path toward enlightenment. 

In Love's vibration we send forth this book, to the hearts 
of Love, who respond to its instructions. 




PART ONE 

Lesson 1 

THE HIGHEB METAPHYSICS 

General Introduction 

HE Truth Absolute, is the foundation upon which we 
stand. We are presenting a Principle, the understand- 
ing and application of which will remove the web of 
the carnal illusions from man's mind. When this is accom- 
plished, man 's soul-memory is restored ; his sight merged into 
Vision ; and he then sees himself the perfect being, just as God 
created him. He sees also, that he is in the midst of Perfec- 
tion; that God, and His Manifestations, is all there is — in 
Reality. So we give these instructions clear, yet concise. 

We give The Higher Metaphysical instructions to assist 
man along the Path unto the heights where he visions the 
Absoluteness as it is in all its perfection, beauty and unchange- 
ableness; and to enable the student-devotee to understand, 
then to perceive, there is a Rock, upon which to stand, as he 
studies this Message and the scientific application of its rules, 
which is so firm and steadfast that neither the winds of Ages, 
Cycles, Periods nor Kalpas can shake it. That Rock is the 
Absolute. The Absolute is God, the Infinite, the limitless, the 
ALL. Then man can readily perceive that the Infinite fills 
all space. If it fills all space, none can escape from the Great 
Presence ; neither can he step beyond its bounds. 

God is Infinite in His Manifestations. We are easily con- 
vinced of this when we look about us ; because at our feet we 
see the blades of grass, the atoms of earth, the grains of sand ; 
we raise our eyes and behold the vast and ever rolling seas, 
we see the majestic mountain ranges, their snow-capped 
peaks towering high, in their seeming effort to reach and kiss 
the blue vault above them ; and, in their silent grandeur, they 
serenely remain, reminding man of the strength and unchange- 
ableness of the Infinite. 

As man continues to look about him, he sees men; and in 
every clime men live in innumerable numbers. In Genesis we 
read. ' ' God created man in His image and likeness. ' ' We also 

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read in Holy Writ, that man is the highest manifestation of 
God, and, "God's crowning glory." When man has elimi- 
nated the carnal conception of himself from his mind, it is 
then he will perceive and understand himself as God expressed 
him into form from out the womb of the Infinite; and, then, 
there being no more mist in his mind, he perceives he is living 
in the very heart of God, and that, throughout the never- 
ending aeons of Eternity, he dwells in the very center of Ood ; 
and that he, being an expression of God, the Father abides 
within him. "The Father within me, He doeth the works," 
said the Master Jesus. 

The keynotes of these lessons ring strong and clear in the 
message of Jesus Christ of Nazareth. He knew the Truth; 
therefore spake knowingly. He ever gave to God the glory, 
and manifested it among the children of men by living the 
Life and expressing God-Love and tender kindness to the 
family of men. 

The foundation upon which to stand is God; and the first 
thing for the awakened man to do is to study and pray until 
he gains an understanding of God, the Infinite. Then the 
next step is to understand man ; then sonship ; then Oneness. 
Man has scaled the heights ere he comes into the Eealization 
of Oneness. From that lofty pinnacle he visions the Absolute- 
ness as it is. 

We read in the scriptures, that "God is All, and there is 
none beside Him." Also, that God is Omnipresent, Omnipo- 
tent and Omniscient, which means All-Power, All-Presence 
and All-Knowing. Knowing is Science; and Knowing is 
Action. We also read that, "God rests in Action." Then 
we see God as Scientific Action, filling all space — here, there 
and everywhere; as an ancient Sage once said, "With center 
here, and circumference nowhere." We also read in the 
scriptures, "That man lives and moves and has his being in 
God." Also that, "God created man in His image and like- 
ness." 

Let us move slowly here, because we are touching the border- 
line of Light, ' ' that Light which lighteth the illimitable Pres- 
ence, which is God ; and let us tread lightly, because this place 
where unto we are approaching is "Holy Ground." 

When Moses saw this same Presence, when It manifested as 
fire in the bush, that Moses might heed the Presence of the 
Ever-Present God ; and, when Moses turned aside to look into 
the strangeness of the fire burning so strong, and not consum- 
ing the bush; then the Voice of God spake to him and said, 
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General Introduction 

1 ' Take off thy shoes from thy feet, for the place whereon thou 
standest is holy ground." 

So it is with all men, when they awaken sufficiently to turn 
aside into the way that leads into the vastness, the nearness, 
the greatness, beauty and glory of the Infinite — the Father — 
Mother — God, and perceive the fire of God ever burning, but 
never consuming the Real; — then it is that the Voice of the 
Infinite will say to them: " Remove thy shoes from off thy 
feet, because the place whereon thou standest is holy ground. ' ' 
This is the awakening period in man, and feet are symbolical 
of understanding. Then the next requisite is, that man remove 
the outer, or old understanding, and, with clear insight, linger 
upon the Holy place, and listen to the still voice of God, that 
he may glean the light which man requires concerning God, 
the Infinite, in His unmanifest and manifest state. 

We read in a sacred Bible of ancient times, "God was the 
One; He desired to become the many; and the Spiritual 
creation sprang forth." 

Jesus Christ, the Great Initiate, said, "I of myself can do 
nothing: the Father within me He doeth the works." Then 
let the student-devotee study, meditate and pray until he 
knows God, in His vastness and nearness, in His strength and 
tenderness; and, then, man's place in this Infinite Presence 
and his at-one-ment with It. 

It is realization which brings man into the full illumination 
of the Absolute, and it is illumination which brings man into 
the fullness of Realization. 

When man, using The Higher Metaphysics intellectually, 
it remains an intellectual perception only, until the Realiza- 
tion takes place; this brings him to the spiritual perception 
of the Spiritual man, — Atman, — the Divine Self. 

It is then that man has touched the mystic spring of the 
Infinite ; and, continuing upon the Path, he walks in the laby- 
rinth of the beauty, love and rhythm of the Father-Mother- 
God j and devotion, reverence and appreciation to the great 
Over-Soul spring forth from the soul; and the Key of Love 
sweeps over the strings of the Infinite Harp ; and the mist of 
confusion being removed from the mind, man sits serenely in 
the abiding consciousness of his nearness — yea, at-one-ment 
with God. 



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Lesson 2 

THE HIGHER METAPHYSICS 

"Man, Know Thy-Self" 



Sp|33AVING spoken in the previous chapter concerning the 
IKrlRi Absoluteness of God, we will add here, that man should 
BpCwJ stand firm upon that Eternal Rock, The Absolute, until 
he attains the Christ-Consciousness ; then the next step is God- 
Consciousness, which is the illumination into realization of 
the Oneness of all that IS. 

It is necessary for man to accept this Rock, and the Abso- 
luteness thereof, by faith ; but, through earnest study, sincere 
prayer and deep meditation, man will gain understanding so 
strong and clear, that faith and understanding join hands, 
and knowing becomes the quality which is manifest in his 
mind. Knowing is a quality of the mind. The Higher Meta- 
physics deals with man's own mind; that he may by denials 
of the false beliefs which form the fabric of the carnal illusion ; 
cause the mind to become emptied of them ; then, through and 
by affirming the Truth of man's Being, until the mirror, his 
mentality, is thoroughly polished ; then man can perceive the 
reality and perfection of the Real Self, as God created him, 
and caused him to step forth an individualized manifestation 
of the Living God. 

In this practical and scientific study, man is to become 
acquainted with himself; "Man know thyself." In Genesis, 
First Chapter, we read, "And God said, let us make man in 
our image, after our likeness; and let them have dominion 
over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over 
the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing 
that creepeth upon the earth." Gen. 1:26. 

"So God created man in His own image, in the image of 
God created He him; male and female created He them." 
Gen. 1:27. 

Thus we see by the allegory in Genesis, that man is a perfect 
being, or manifestation of God; but St. Paul said, "Man has 
sought out many inventions"; therefore, man finds himself, 
when he awakens, clothed upon with an outer temple, which 
does not express the perfection of the God-created man, "the 
body being the Temple of the Living God." 
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"Man, Know Thyself" 

Thus we perceive the allegory in Genesis to be the Voice of 
the Infinite speaking to man in as clear a way concerning 
man's being, as is possible for man to conceive of the Infinite 
in Action and Manifestation. 

These lessons are not written in an elaborate way, that the 
intellect may be fed, or, perhaps, pleased, but in a concise 
form; as it is the purpose that the student-devotee, after 
studying the Great Fabric of Truth concerning God, man and 
the Universe may feel his soul leap forth with a bound into 
conscious life; and as the Ego bursts its bounds, merge into 
the realization of his Real Self and his at-one-ment with God, 
which is Cosmic Consciousness in the individual. 

It is realization which we desire the reader and student- 
devotee to reach in the study of these lessons: therefore, be 
still in the silent chamber of your own soul, — in your heart, 
and meditate upon God, the Infinite. Meditate upon the vast- 
ness and the Allness of that Presence in which you dwell ; its 
nearness and absoluteness ; then on thyself, an individualized 
expression, or manifestation of this Presence Who Knows, 
Acts, and IS. 

Here man finds it necessary to control his mind. This 
requires patience and perseverance, as the carnal mind in man 
is like the surging sea. An ancient sage has likened it unto a 
"wild horse"; and, truly, it does seem as difficult to bring 
into subjection as the lariating and bringing into subjection 
of the horse which has roamed unharnessed over the broad 
plains. 

To accomplish concentration, first, voice a prayer to the 
Infinite; then, quiet the mind and meditate upon Aum — God. 
As long as the mind is stayed upon God, it is not creating 
thoughts. 

When the mentality is thoroughly purified of the carnal 
illusions, the God-Mind only is in operation in man. This is 
knowing into the realization of man as he is and things as 
they are. When thus illumined, man no longer permits 
thoughts to go from his mind to another 's mind ; neither any- 
where. He serenely abides at home, and God-Mind operates 
in and through his mentality; God's Holy Breath breathes 
him ; he, having found his Real Self and heard the still voice 
of God speaking to his soul, becomes a conscious being in the 
Cosmic ; then he soon will sincerely desire to learn his place 
in the Father's great plan. 

Man can here see the importance of prayer and silent medi- 
tation. Man, standing erect, meditating upon the Absolute- 

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ness of that which IS ; and desiring to pray to this ever-pres- 
ent Presence which, man has read in Holy Writ, created him 
in His image and likeness begins to turn the lens upon himself ; 
and this is well, for man's work is with himself entirely. 

There is nothing to be changed or effected by this study, 
and the application of the rules scientifically and metaphys- 
ically, but man, himself ; and this is accomplished by cleansing 
his mind and staying it upon God. 



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Lesson 3 
THE HIGHER METAPHYSICS 

Prayer 

AN, having learned that he, in the reality of his being 
is a divine man, an individual manifestation of God, 
who became manifest at the dawn of creation; a 
Divine Man in expression, then and now, and will ever remain 
thus, desires to communicate with God. 

But man, having passed out from the Garden of Eden into 
the mist, has lost his way ; and, in his outer consciousness, has 
strayed far away from God. 

But, when man has awakened and learned the Omnipres- 
ence, Omnipotence and Omniscience of God, and that man, 
in the reality of his being, is a Divine Man, and living in the 
Infinite, feeling a separation between himself and God, he 
desires to commune with the Father. Jesus taught, "The 
Kingdom of Heaven is within," and that the "Father within 
man, he doeth the works, ' ' but man, awakening in the concept 
of the Prodigal Son, is, in consciousness, far away from God 
and, feeling his inability to find his way, desires to talk with 
the Father-Mother-God. 

We read that King David, when thirsting for a drink of 
living water, exclaimed, "As the hart panteth after the water 
brooks, so panteth my Soul after thee, God." Psalm 42:1. 

"My Soul thirsteth for God, for the Living God; when shall 
I come and appear before God?" Psalm 42:2. 

King David exclaimed, evidently, after his Soul was some- 
what refreshed, ' ' Commit thy way unto the Lord ; trust also 
in Him ; and He shall bring it to pass. " Psalm 37:5. 

When man is awakened sufficiently to hear the silent voice 
of his soul, which is Conscious Life, sufficiently strong, that its 
urge may penetrate the outer department of his mind, it will 
express its thirst for the water of Life; and prayer is the 
means of communication between man and God. 

Man's method of prayer changes as man's enlightenment 
increases ; but God ever knoweth the desire of man 's heart. 

Let us review the two prayers which we have in the New 
Testament record which portrays the different states of men 

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who pray. We have the Publican, he whom the Divine Con- 
viction had touched to such a depth, he began to examine him- 
self ; and, from the sincerity of his heart, he cried, "God, be 
merciful to me, a sinner ! ' ' 

We have the Pharisee, whom the Divine Conviction had not 
touched with a depth sufficiently deep to cause him to wear a 
robe of humility. He stood and prayed, "I thank thee, 
Father, that I am not as other men." St. Luke 18:11-13. 

Bigotry and conceit can never walk the streets of the Holy 
City. These need to be burned by the purifying fire, which is 
God. We read in Holy Writ, ' ' God is a consuming fire. ' ' The 
Ocean consumes all impurities cast therein. 

The metaphysical or scientific prayer is practical ; but should 
not be devoid of devotion. 

Jesus said, "Unless man becomes as a little child, he cannot 
enter the Kingdom of Heaven. ' ' A little child has no enmity, 
malice nor revenge. Man, to approach the Sacred Presence of 
the Living God, in the christianly scientific prayer has a 
clean mind, and his heart is filled with love. Then in the quiet 
sanctuary of his own Soul, in silent meditation, he, recogniz- 
ing God as He is, and man as he is, in that sacred chamber, 
"Where none but God can hear" ; communes with his Father- 
Mother-God. 

God hath promised to answer prayer; and, as long as the 
bow spans the sky, God's promises will stand. 

In The Higher Metaphysics, man uses denials, understand- 
ingly, to eliminate hate, malice, revenge, selfishness, self-right- 
eousness, anger and confusion from his mind ; then he calls to 
his remembrance the Absoluteness of God, and Man, by affirm- 
ing the Truth, until a flash of light fills his consciousness and 
the place, which was occupied by these carnal concepts, is 
filled with the Reality. Man, then, can sincerely and rever- 
ently commune with the Omnipresent God. 

When man arrives at the Illumined State, he then, in sweet 
assurance and abiding confidence, enters the Great Silence 
and knows that the Father hath answered, "even before he 
calls." 

Jesus Christ is our example here. We find that Jesus talked 
to the Father as familiarly, trustingly and confidingly as He 
could have done to an earthly father. His prayers were 
answered; He would say, "Father, I thank thee, that Thou 
hearest me ; and I know that Thou hearest me always. ' ' Jesus 
Christ 's prayer, was, and is, the highest form of prayer, which 
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Prayer 

the men of earth have ; but to voice a prayer as He did, man 
must have mastered the carnal man's fears, doubts, lusts and 
passions, and stand, as He, a Conscious Son of God. 

The Scientific, or Metaphysical Prayer is applied to man's 
mind, that it may become clear, that he may arise above 
undesirable conditions or obstacles which he may encounter 
upon his path. 

When man realizes the Absolute Truth of God, man and the 
Universe, he understandingly rests in abiding peace, and Love 
becomes a reality to him; yea, that Love-Essence, Divine, 
which is the Ever-Present God. 

Man, having learned that God's manifestations are perfect; 
that the Universe and systems of Universes are perfect ; then 
proceeds, in his silent meditation, something like this; God, 
and God's manifestations, being all there is in reality; and 
God, filling all space; then perfection is in expression at all 
times and in all places: this is the premise from which to 
proceed, which is Truth Absolute. It is necessary that man 
realizes this Reality; and this will be in proportion to his 
sincerity and persistent application to the task. 

Then, to apply the Metaphysical Prayer, when overtaken 
with sickness, step firmly upon the Rock — God. Knowing the 
Truth concerning God, man and the Universe, then deny the 
reality of sickness, and speak to it in a positive determination, 
with strong words of command, as Jesus did to the Tempter 
when he approached Him. Jesus said, "Get thee behind me, 
satan. ' ' That was quite a scientific thing to do, because when 
a thing is behind us, we no longer see it ; then we can more 
clearly erase it from the memory. 

God created man perfect, upright, happy and content ; and 
placed him in the midst of that abode which is so sublime, man 
can only say it is Paradise ; and this, like all else, conveys to 
man its exquisiteness in proportion to his light. 

For man to become scientificially freed from the Wheel of 
Carnality and stand at Home, in consciousness, in the Heart 
of God, a redeemed son will find it necessary to deny from his 
own mentality (not another's), the reality of every carnal 
illusion until the Reality, which is always just back of the 
unreal, becomes the Real to his consciousness. 

How is man to know the Real, that which God created, from 
the illusion, or that which carnal mind created ? 

Return at once to the premise, and step upon that Rock — 
The Absolute Truth — God; then look into the appearance, be 
it what it may ; and, if it does not square with God 's Perf ec- 

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tion. His Love, His Purity, His Holiness, His Tenderness, His 
Mercy, His Abundant Bounty, then cross the appearance out 
by denials ; know it is in the illusive shadow of illusions ; and 
that its creator is carnal mind, and it, having no permanency, 
can soon be reduced to its native place — nowhere. 

When man, through knowledge, insight and vision, meets 
and masters all the foes which dwell in the carnal mind, and 
the mind is washed by denials, until it is clear as a freshly 
washed window pane, and polished by affirmations of the 
Truth of Being until it is transparent; then it is God who 
giveth the increase and fills the place where the illusions seem 
to be with that influx of His Presence, "as though they were 
not" ; as when a pail of water is lifted from the lake, the water 
immediately fills the vacuum ; the water fills the place in God's 
Scientific Law, which is in constant action, in all places and 
at all times. 

In the Metaphysical Application of this Great Principle, 
always know this is man 's own work ; washing from his mind 
the mist which began to form in it, in that long ago, when he 
chose a change ; or, used his inherent power within him, which 
some call free-will. This free-will being finite, man will sur- 
render it to the Infinite, our Father-Mother-God, before he is 
a redeemed Son of the Living God. Man's first effort toward 
that high state of consciousness, when he awakens sufficiently 
to desire freedom from the carnal concept, is to deny the false 
beliefs from his mind, as he learns of their unreality, until he 
attains the illumination into Freedom Divine. 

When man fully knows the Truth, he will have, through 
denials, thoroughly purged his mind of the beliefs of the 
carnal man ; then, by affirming the divineness and perfection 
of his Real Self, he perceives the Reality of all that is of God. 

Then it is, that man in this Illuminated State, when he feels 
the God Love overshadowing him and expressing in his own 
Soul bows in reverential prayer to the God that is, and in 
"Whom he lives, moves and has his Being." 



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Lesson 4 

THE HIGHER METAPHYSICS 

Faith 



Ipi^jFTER man has studied deeply the Message of Truth, 

<jpSIK believes it to be true, knows the rules of application 

SKQlyl and understands concerning this, faith, then, becomes 

necessary to him that he may bring this Truth of Being into 

expression. 

Faith is not a fabric which can be manufactured by man, 
through taking thought, or making statements, because it is a 
gift from God; then, if man desires faith, "let him ask of 
God." 

For man to become conscious of Faith, deny all doubts, 
fears and superstitions from the mind ; then affirm the Truth, 
and faith will spring into evidence within the mind and heart, 
acting in that same Law, which governs the water when it 
instantly fills the place in the lake wherefrom the pail of water 
was lifted. 

Faith is necessary ; and the student-devotee should endeavor 
to so live and be, that he is conscious of faith continually. 
The knowing quality is not sufficient to burst into illumina- 
tion, until faith has united with it. St. James, in writing to 
the student-devotees of Truth, said, "My brethren, count it all 
joy when ye fall into divers temptations." St. James 1:2. 

"Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh 
patience. ' ' St. James 1 :3. 

"But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be 
perfect and entire; wanting nothing. " St. James 1:4. 

"If any man lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth 
to all men liberally, and upbraideth not ; and it shall be given 
him. ' ' St. James 1 :5. 

"But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering, for he that 
wavereth is like a wave of the sea, driven with the wind and 
tossed." St. James 1:6. 

"For let not that man think that he shall receive anything 
of the Lord." St. James 1:7. 

"A double-minded man is unstable in all his ways." St. 
James 1:8. 

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St. James also adds: "Let no man say when he is tempted, 
I am tempted of God; for God cannot be tempted with evil, 
neither tempteth He any man. ' ' St. James 1 :13. 

"But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his 
own lusts, and enticed. ' ' St. James 1 :14. 

1 ' Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin ; and 
sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death." St. James 1:15. 

"Do not err, my beloved brethren," St. James 1:16. 

1 ' Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and 
cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no 
variableness, neither shadow of turning." St. James 1:17. 

"Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift 
to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath. ' ' St. James 1 :19. 

"For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of 
God." St. James 1:20. 

1 ' For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is 
like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass." St. 
James 1 :23. 

"But who so looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and 
continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer 
of the word, this man shall be blest in his deeds." St. James 
1:25. 

' ' Even so Faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone. ' ' 
St. James 2:17. 

Thus we see in St. James' teachings that he shows clearly 
the importance of Faith ; but he sums it all up, and brings it 
into the scientific prayer, when he says, ' ' Even so Faith if it 
hath not works is dead, being alone." 

As long as man has faith, strong enough in God to pray for 
the recovery of the sick, and they are healed ; for the awaken- 
ing of the Spiritual dead, and they are quickened into a recog- 
nition of the Father's Love, Care and Protection, 'tis well; 
and Infinite Love is pleased, that man is thus endued. 

St. Paul said, "Faith is the substance of things hoped for, 
the evidence of things not seen." Then, faith being the 
substance of things hoped for, from the fact that man has 
Faith, it is evident those things exist; but man must know 
this! and it requires understanding, united with faith, to 
bring it into a knowing in man's consciousness. 

"When man knows a thing, he has the evidence of it ; there- 
fore, faith is no longer needed. 

Jesus Christ required not faith, because He knew God, man, 
and the Universe; and God's Law, which is in operation in 
and through them. 
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Faith 

Tesus from the vantage ground of illumination, which is 
that Divine Seership, which is Vision, with understanding 
looked into humanity as He found it, when He lived in a body 
of flesh. 

Jesus Christ stood on the summit; He achieved the highest 
point of expression that the Divine Man can attain here upon 
this earth. He is the example, the way-shower, the Teacher. 

He called to the awakened man, ■ ' Follow thou me. ' ' Jesus 
would not have thus called, if it had not been possible for all 
awakened men to follow Him. 

We have Jesus Christ on the summit, with Illumination and 
Vision ; and see Him doing the works of healing the sick, rais- 
ing the dead, and feeding the hungry, (both material and 
spiritual hunger). 

Let the student ever keep before his mind's eye that Ideal. 
Jesus Christ, the Conscious Redeemed Son of God, as He stood 
on the summit of the mountain. 

But ever remember, if you desire to stand there, you must 
climb the mountain ; and you, yourself must do the climbing. 
Here is where faith is necessary ; and man is to ask of God, 
"Who giveth liberally, and upbraideth not." 

As you study and desire to understand, pray to God for 
guidance, for light, for wisdom. 

When man first begins to pray, most likely God will seem 
far away ; but if he will continue, Truth is so powerful that, 
little by little, man will know that he has touched that vital, 
yet invisible Presence. 

Man's faith increases at each victory over the obstacles 
which confront him upon his path. Count not the time con- 
sumed, because some day the student-devotee will touch the 
border-line of Eternity ; then soon the limitations of time are 
consumed, by the knowing quality which has become evident, 
springing first into Faith, then into Understanding, then into 
Knowing, then into Realization. 

When man knows absolutely, he then has the Christ Con- 
sciousness complete within him ; it having grown from infancy 
(its birth in man's consciousness) into the full stature of Jesus 
Christ, within him; this is the Divine Man, the Real Self of 
each man become manifest, here on the earth. This is man's 
destiny ; and it will be worked out unto a finish, here on this 
earth plane, just as Jesus Christ showed and proved. If it 
had been that man was to work out his salvation on some other 
plane, or planet, Jesus Christ would have taught differently. 

When man knows the Truth, he has solved his problems; 

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and no man knoweth the Truth, it matters not how eloquently 
he teaches it, until he can prove that he knows it; and the 
proof is in living a holy life, and in healing sickness, pain, 
sorrow, poverty, old age and death. 

Some will say, this is a high standard ; and true it is. But 
not too high. 

Men, all down the Ages, have had gods many; and have 
been content with a few bright stones, which they have gath- 
ered along the shore of the illimitable Ocean of Truth; and 
content to dwell in the midst of carnality ; and continue in the 
Wheel which winds its way continually along amidst birth and 
death ; and in the Web of Time. 

Jesus Christ 's Message is, ' ' Launch out into the deep ! ' ' 
And in Faith in God and yourself, — in prayer, cut all ropes 
which bind you to carnality; and cast anchor in the Abso- 
lute ; where time is left behind on the land, where the shores 
are shifting sands: and sail, in the Eternality of that which 
IS ; and this is God ; the All in All — Our Father-Mother. 

It requires Faith, for the awakened man to enter the Boat of 
Truth, where there are no oars, God being the helmsman ; and 
to abide in the Boat, believing God's hand is steering the bark. 
But, if man can gain faith sufficiently strong right there, he 
soon will feel the Presence of God ; and see the working of this 
Great Law so clearly, that he of a surety perceives God's 
Power and Presence. 

Then man, one by one, cuts the ropes which bind him to 
the illusions, which the false beliefs of the carnal mind have 
wrought ; then he rests serenely in the Boat ; he then knows 
God is at the helm; and he abides continually and trustingly 
in the care of the Loving Father-Mother-God. 

At this place man is Conscious Atman, having the illumina- 
tion of his Divine Self. He has finished his problem when he 
Realizes his At-One-Ment with God. 



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Lesson 5 

THE HIGHER METAPHYSICS 

Application 

HE standard of this message is The Absolute : but for 
man to study these lessons as he would read a book, 
just cramming the intellect, it will avail him little 
indeed. 

The Cosmic is vibrant with the Infinite Principle, and, 
when man becomes alert to this great Truth and understand- 
ingly in tune therewith, he has learned many of the deep 
things of God; then, if he desires to become in at-one-ment 
with the great Cosmic Heart, and touch the secret spring 
thereof, that the perfect expression of the God Law become 
evident, he must apply the deep truths which he has learned. 
If he does not apply the rules, or voice the prayer, he stands 
in the same current as those who do not know concerning the 
principle of Truth. Therefore, if sickness seems to be, it will 
exhaust itself, or cause the body to succumb, and death take 
place with the one who understands the God-Law and its 
application, if he does not use it, (if he has not attained unto 
illumination so deep that it is Realization,) just the same 
as with the one who knows not of it. 

The one who studies The Higher Metaphysics, and daily 
applies its rules, will begin almost at once to pass into clearer 
light, and his health of body will become evident in proportion 
to his realization of the Truth which is the foundation. 

When man awakens from the carnal slumber, — (we read in 
Genesis, that Adam went to sleep ; this signifies the carnal 
concept; as long as man is sleeping soundly, he is conscious 
only of the outer self;) — but when he awakens, his Soul, the 
Real Divine Self, has begun to stir within him ; and his carnal 
mind feels that a change of heart has taken place ; then he no 
longer is satisfied with the life of the surface, (the carnal life) ; 
he then discovers he is, "Ina far country ; ' ' and, having awak- 
ened, he begins to think of that other clime from which he 
departed, even as Adam, when he stepped from the Garden of 
Eden. "My Soul panteth after thee, God," King David 
exclaimed. 

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We give a practical application of the rules, which, if 
applied, will assist man to pass into a new country. This does 
not signify a change of locality, but a change in states of con- 
sciousness. Man will then live in the conception of the Truth, 
having passed away from the old conception of things. 

It is well to remember a man while asleep accomplishes 
nothing. Though in his dreams he may travel to far lands 
and have many dealings with his fellow man, when he 
awakens he is in the same place. Then he realizes that the 
dream was only the will-o '-the-wisp ; he even smiles at the 
reality it seemed to express. 

When God created man He caused him to become an indi- 
vidualized manifestation of Himself ; and this individuality is 
Divine man in expression; and he was placed in the perfect 
Spiritual Universe. 

Man gradually lost consciousness of this, as the mist formed 
in his mind, until all memory of his Divine Self is lost ; and he 
lives in the Adam-sleep ; but when man awakens and has gained 
understanding, he will smile at the seeming reality of the illu- 
sions which controlled him while he lived, asleep in the Adam- 
dream, which Jesus, in His parable, calls the Far Country. 
Jesus portrayed man at that place as feeding the swine. That 
is the state of concept, where man is living in the sense nature 
only. By man, we mean man and woman, because, ' ' Male and 
female created He the men of earth. ' ' 

But, when the Soul bursts its bounds and begins to express, 
it thirsteth for the Living Water, and hungers for Spiritual 
Bread. Man attains these here and now through faith, knowl- 
edge and understanding sufficiently deep that Love and Devo- 
tion spring forth from his heart to the Living God, the Omni- 
present One ; in Whom he lives, and has his being ; even as the 
spring of cool water bursts forth from the mountain side. 

When the student has become convinced that God, and God 
manifest is all there in reality IS, and desires to bring himself 
into that Realization, he can apply the rules given, and he will 
soon become convinced of the truthfulness of the Message of 
Jesus. 

When a student-devotee is called to one who is stricken 
with sickness, he may go direct to his bed-side, or, if the situa- 
tion requires, he can give the prayer from the distance, remem- 
bering always that God is Omnipresent ; and that the one, who 
is sick, is living in that very presence, even though he may be 
thousands of miles away. 

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Application 

When called to the bed-side of the afflicted, enter the sick 
chamber with the full understanding of the fundamental prin- 
ciple of Truth ; then the manifestation of disease, in any form, 
will not disturb you. 

The first thing, when called to the sick, either in body, mind 
or environments, is to go to God in Prayer. Enter the silent 
chamber of your own Soul. It is necessary you bring your 
thoughts under subjection, that the mind may become quiet, 
that you may become conscious that you are in the very pres- 
ence of God. It is well to clearly perceive, it matters not what 
the environment may be, be it the slums, or the palace of 
kings ; for God is Omnipresent ; which means everywhere. 
Ask of God, the great Over-Soul, — and the indwelling Pres- 
ence, to sustain you as you minister to the afflicted; to over- 
shadow you; also, to be your indwelling strength and con- 
sciousness ; ask for wisdom to pray, and what to do and say, 
and close this prayer by saying, "Father, I request this in 
and through Christ, in the name of Jesus Christ." 

When the student-devotee enters the sick chamber, being 
thus equipped, he is calm, serene and confident. Then let him 
enter the silent precinct of his own Soul, and there, in con- 
scious at-one-ment with the Father, voice in the silence that 
prayer as the Father guides him. If he has arrived at vision, 
he clearly sees through the condition : and, if his vision is the 
Christ- Vision, which is ladened with conscious at-one-ment 
with the Father; and the Oneness of that which is; he can 
Vision the sickness into nothing in his own concept; and, in 
proportion to the attunement of the one who desires assistance 
from his prayer, will they receive the benefit. His only effort 
is with himself, that he realize the Truth as it forever is. 
Then it is the work of those who desire assistance to attune 
themselves, through insight, that they may receive the quick- 
ening from out the great Cosmic Heart, when the vibrations 
are responsive to the prayer of the illumined one. Never be 
anxious, neither especially concerned, if the one for whom 
you pray, responds or not. As the sage necessarily must 
understand the underlying laws which operate throughout car- 
nality. However, a sage only recognizes, as the Real, the God- 
Law ; knowing, that when the carnal delusion is cleaerd away, 
there is the God-Law in operation, even as it was when it was 
covered with the carnal debris, and the unawakened one only 
perceived the carnal expression. 

The Metaphysical Prayer, using it in the understanding of 
the principle as portrayed, is to deny the disease, deny its 

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reality, and affirm the perfection of the Real Man. Thor- 
oughly knowing that the Real Self of each and all men cannot 
be sick ; from the very fact that a Divine thing, being divinity, 
could not be touched, therefore, never contaminated by sick- 
ness in any form; neither affected by undesirable environ- 
ments. 

In using the Scientific Prayer, be clear in your understand- 
ing, that it is God who doeth the works. His Law, ever being 
in action, when the spell of sickness is broken, the place is 
filled with the realization of health, which has ever been true 
of his Real Self. This realization comes from the God within, 
and not from the carnal mind. It comes in and fills the place 
where the belief of sickness was, just as the water of its own 
volition fills the vacuum wherefrom the pail of water was 
taken. None ask how the water immediately fills the vacuum, 
because man, being ever accustomed to seeing the water thus 
respond, does not give it a passing thought. 

"When man fully ' ' Knows the Truth, ' ' and consciously lives 
in exercise of his God-given dominion, an individualized 
expression of the Living God; he will become so accustomed 
to seeing the Living God become evident at all places, and in 
all conditions, when he voices the denials which tear down 
the seeming structure called disease, pain or poverty ; and the 
expression of the good, the true, the perfect and harmonious 
become manifest; that, he, in that illuminated state, will 
rejoice ever. 

Then let man, in grateful humility, return thanks to the 
Infinite, our Father-Mother-God ; Whom he now knows is ever 
near, ever tender, ever true. 

When man is thus equipped to be of assistance to his fellow 
man, he is in the Will of the Infinite; and is truly walking 
upon the Sacred Path. 

As man moves along the Sacred Path, each step brings a 
clearer light, and a stronger realization, until he arrives at 
the place where he has left The Higher Metaphysics behind 
him; as it is only given to man that he may cleanse his own 
mentality of the carnal illusions, which all men inherit as a 
legacy from the carnal side of his being, and, when man's mind 
is cleansed, and he in loving reverence and devotion turns to 
the Omnipresent God, then the place in his consciousness 
becomes filled with the Essence Divine, as he being a drop of 
the Ocean Absolute, is at-one with it. He then is a new 
creature, and old things (concepts), have passed away ; because 
he has become conscious of his at-one-ment with God. The 
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Application 

carnal mind, having become merged into the God-mind, there 
is no more need for The Higher Metaphysics. Then man can 
commune as confidingly, serenely and sweetly with the Father- 
Mother-God, as our Elder Brother did. 

How then can the things of earth, they being dressed in the 
changing garb of nature, longer disturb him ? They cannot ! 
He is anchored in God. 



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Lesson 6 
THE HIGHER METAPHYSICS 

Man As He Is and As He Seems to Be 

Sjjl^fcOD and His manifestation, is all there really is. In An- 
(tt|g?lf cient Scripture we read, "God was the One; He de- 
eSl^eb sired to become the many, and creation sprang forth, ' ' 
— expressed in form, according to its degree of expression. 

The Infinite Universe is the impersonal and omnipresent 
God, from which, and into which, the myriad of systems of 
universes took form and exist. This is the First and only 
Cause of that which it expressed into form. 

There is only One ; ' ' There is naught beside Him. ' ' This is 
the Absolute, "in whom there is no variableness, neither 
shadow of turning. ' ' There are no shadows there, as relativity 
does not express there. 

Let the student get his mind filled, even unto perception 
complete, of the Absolute as it really is, which is the imper- 
sonal God, who is Omnipresent, Omnipotent and Omniscient; 
and, that this is the Ocean Essence Divine, the great Over- 
Soul and the Supreme Spirit of the Universe ; and, that this 
greatness expressed Itself into forms of its own Essence (as 
there was no other), into universes and myriad systems of 
universes, and all forms within them. 

Man is the highest expression; because God expressed His 
conscious mind in him. Man is a reasoning, comprehending 
being, destined, when he is consciously the full-grown man in 
the statue of Jesus Christ, to stand forth in conscious under- 
standing, in full realization ; that he is an expression of God. 
Then it is that the carnal spell is broken, the shadow of illu- 
sion dispelled, and he perceives that he, too, is a son of the 
Living God, and that Jesus Christ is the Elder Brother who 
proclaimed to mankind the truth of man's being, and proved 
by His example, in His life and His works, that man is to 
return to the Father's House. Jesus said, " Folio w thou me!" 

"When the man whom God created, or caused to become 
manifest, began to take cognizance of the shadows of the Real, 
he gradually moved out into them, and became lost. When he 

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awakens from his long slumber, he finds himself as Jesus por- 
trayed in His parable, the Prodigal Son. 

When man awakens from the Adam Sleep, neither the 
things nor the experiences of carnality satisfy him. 

"When man awakens, his Soul begins to express to his con- 
scious self; and the Soul desires the Bread from Heaven. 
Then it is man begins to search for the hidden manna, hidden 
from the carnal man, because he cannot perceive it. It is the 
Soul, — that Divine Self, — which God expressed into form at 
that dawn, "where man's mind runs not to the contrary/ ' 
Thus we see man as he is and as he seems to be. 

The seeming is the great Carnal Illusion; and man, in the 
carnal concept of himself, lives and expresses in Maya, the 
Forest of Illusion. Nothing in carnality satisfies the Soul of 
Man, his Divine Self. Therefore, we find our brothers, even 
those surrounded with luxury and wealth at their command, 
ever feeling an unrest within them. This is the urge of the 
Soul, endeavoring to arouse the outer self who seems to be the 
man, but, in reality, is only the outer temple. "Ye are the 
Temple of the Living God." 

Man awakens in a far country. His face is turned away 
from God. He is looking in the opposite direction. Therefore 
has he in concept strayed into a far country. Having lost his 
conscious link with the Omnipresent God, he is as a rudderless 
ship upon the great ocean of carnality, with no anchor to cast ; 
therefore adrift upon a shoreless sea; but the sea is only the 
surface of the omnipresence that is God ; and the Real Self of 
man is ever the manifestation of God. Then let man right 
here bestir himself as the prodigal son did, by examining him- 
self ; for then, it is that man desires to draw closer to God, 
saying, "I will arise and go to my Father.' ' There is the 
journey back to the Father's House. Having turned about, 
man begins his journey within himself, by using the shuttle of 
Life, and unweaving the part of the pattern that should be 
erased, and bringing into perfect expression that which is 
incomplete. When man awakens, he then begins to express 
his Real Self, the Self which God caused to become manifest at 
the dawn. This man continues to do, as he journeys toward 
Home, the Father's House, — man's destination. 

When man arrives at full enlightenment, he expresses the 
Real Self, "which God created in His image and likeness." 
Gen. 1. 

This Real Self is a Soul of the great Over-Soul, and as 
inseparable from it as the ray is from the sun. Separate the 

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ray from the sun and it becomes extinct. Should man, God's 
self expressed into form, become disjoined from the Over- 
Soul, man would not be ; — a thing which can never take place, 
because God, Himself, is expressed into forms; and God 
cannot become separated ; neither can any part of Him become 
extinct. What God has done, He has done; and, "He pro- 
nounced it finished. " Therefore, the Real Self, which is the 
Son of God (because God brought him forth from His formless 
Essence into form within himself, and God is the Infinite), 
has no place to dwell but in God. 

Man, in the dream of carnality, only perceives himself as 
the Adam Man, subject to birth, death, growth and limitations 
in general, because the finite is limited at all points. Freedom 
does not exist in the realm of carnality. The carnal man must 
pierce the veil, which hangs in the midst of the Temple, ere 
he perceives the possibility of the freedom of the Sons of God. 
When this takes place, he has been born again, and, as this 
Christ-child consciousness expands his outer concept, he will, 
in time, become conscious that he, too, is a Christed child of 
God, an Enlightened one. Then man has arrived at Home, as 
the Christ light of the Real Self shines brighter, the outer 
temple becomes quickened into a Light Divine, reflected from 
the Real Self, who is the sovereign that abides within ; and, as 
the Christ light of the Real Self shines brighter, the outer 
temple, the body, will become quickened into the vibration of 
the Soul, — the Real Self, which is forever at-one with the 
great Over-Soul, which is Conscious Life in action; and the 
outer man, vibrating in the vibration of conscious Life, becomes 
Immortal, and stands forth a master over the last enemy, 
death. Jesus Christ brought this forth in His example to 
prove to man, when he has finished his wanderings in the forest 
of illusion and is ready to merge from the generation period 
into the regeneration period; that man will stand forth 
redeemed. Complete redemption is the message of the Abso- 
lute in the message and example of Jesus Christ. Then it is 
that man passes into the seventh heaven, or, as Gautama 
Buddha expressed it, Nirvana ; both of which mean the finished 
or redeemed state. 

Then it is man has consciously found himself, and that he 
is at Home in God. He then perceives that he has never 
departed therefrom ; but, by looking at the shadows, he became 
lost in their seeming reality, and wandered many weary years 
over a rough path. The sunlight being obscured by the 

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shadows, he lingered long upon the stony shore of the calm 
ocean of Life. 

This change in man is not brought about by passing through 
death, but through the Christ-Enlightenment, which first 
reveals to him that, he, being an expression of God, is a Son 
of God ; and in the full realization of this Truth of his being, 
he will, through this Light, it being "That Light which light- 
eth every man who cometh into the world, ' ' become that Con- 
scious Light. Through this Light which he is, he perceives 
that he is a grain of the Ocean Essence Divine, a drop in the 
Ocean of Omnipresence, which is God. This is the highest 
illumination for man on this planet, as it brings him to the 
mountain summit; and he there stands a radiant individual 
Soul of the great Over-Soul and, consciously forever at-one 
with the Omnipresent God. Jesus said, "The Father and I 
are one ; but the Father is greater than I. ' ' Therefore, when 
man thus stands, he is the greatness of God expressed; and 
humility is his robe, and brotherly kindness and compasison 
are his hand-maidens; and, from that place divine, he proves 
a blessing to mankind. This is man's greatest privilege in 
the divine plan — to serve ! Yes, to prove himself a blessing, 
even as the flowers do. They bloom in all perfection, dressed 
in the myriad hues of the rainbow, and radiate their fragrance, 
ever expressing their perfection ; and all who pass by, be they 
high or low, rich or poor, are welcome to behold their beauty 
and inhale their fragrance ; and the wise will appreciate them, 
if they be orchid or sunflower, violet or rose. 

A Sage, having attained enlightenment, dons the robe of 
humility while he is on the mountain summit. He, wearing 
this robe, returns to the valley where mankind is living, lost 
in the shadow of the carnal illusion. He smiles at their illu- 
sions, but with tolerance and compassion ; and so long as it is 
his privilege to so do he assists all who will permit him, that 
they may attain enlightenment and live the life of the God- 
conscious one here upon earth. 

The outer and the inner, the seeming, and that which is, will 
reveal themselves ; Illumination will pierce the veil, and then 
man perceives he is at Home. 

The Omnipresent God is the Ocean of Light, Life, Love, 
Intelligence, Power and Action, in which man forever abides. 
"There is naught to fear in all God's Holy Mountain." 

Climb to the mountain top, friends. Then, having drunk 
long and deep from the fountain there, return to the men of 
earth and give to them the refreshing draught. So be it. 

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THE HIGHER METAPHYSICS 

Reality 

E still and know that I am God." 

"He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most 
High, shall abide in the shadow of the Almighty." 
Psalm 91:1. 

If there were no Reality ; if there were no Omnipresence in 
the Ocean Divine, humanity's bark would be adrift upon an 
uncertain sea, and with no compass it would forever drift with 
the low tide, or ride upon the crest of the billowy waves ; no 
compass, no anchor, no guiding hand, no "Still Voice" to 
whisper, "Be still and know that I am God." 

The Reality is just back of the surface. The man is within 
his garment. Life is within the rose bush, and expresses the 
rose. 

There is but one Presence ; — the Omnipresent God Essence, 
in form and unmanif est. In this very center of God, the vibra- 
tion of the Conscious Life Action is so great that a silent 
stillness seems to exist. Because it is such a high rate of Life 
Action, man cannot register it. As the earth and all expressed 
forms act in their individual capacity ; in the belief of separa- 
tion, the vibrations are lower; and continue to become lower 
until the outer surface is a very low rate of vibration ; and this 
is called nature ; and here we find trees clothed in bark, birds 
in dresses of feathers, animals with coats of fur, and man 
within an outer temple in the vibration of nature, which is, as 
it were, throughout the surface of infinity. 

When man is in a low or heavy rate of vibration (by man 
we here refer to the human family upon this, or any planet), 
the whole planet is vibrating low ; when the Spiritual Age, or 
cycle arrives, man comes into a more spiritual state of con- 
cept, and the vibrations of the planet greatly raise, and lo! 
the New Age. 

This is the age when mankind is to become redeemed from 
the thraldom of the Great Illusion, — the surface; and seek 
the center where the vibrations of God vibrate in the certainty 
of the eternal Omnipresence of the Omnipotent God. 
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Then, as man awakens to the Truth of his own Being and 
perceives this is the Truth of every one's Being, and that God 
is a Living Reality, he, then, seeking for enlightenment, will 
wash the window of his Soul (his mind), through and by 
denials, until all accumulation of debris (past superstitions, 
prejudices, bigotry and conceit), are eliminated; and the 
polishing process has proceeded, until the mind is transpar- 
ency, and the Infinite ever expressing there; and the eyes, 
expressing the Light that radiates within his heart, it being 
the center where the spiritual self continues in conscious life 
action ; as the physical heart is the center of the physical life 
action; Blood! Yes! Vital indeed is blood to the physical 
man, and vital indeed is the River of Life which flows through 
the Real Self, the Spiritual Man. 

As man becomes enlightened into the Christ Life, the vibra- 
tion of God Life, Immortality, vibrates through the Temple, 
the physical man; and, as man through this inner light 
becomes balanced, poised and serene, the vibrations of the 
outer man raise, and, at the crucial time, when man is 
redeemed, in body, mind, soul and spirit, the vibration of the 
inner man, who is in the vibration of the Heart of God — 
Conscious Life — will become one. Then the outer becomes 
the inner, or the Real Self absorbs the outer self, and man 
becomes One, and the River of Life flows through his Being. 
The blood of the physical man, then, becomes merged into the 
River of Life. 

'Tis God who giveth the increase ; and man, acquiescing to 
the Will of God, becomes illumined into the Realization of the 
Reality, as it IS. 

Higher Metaphysics is that which assists the individual to 
first purify his own mind, then to so polish it, that the carnal 
mind of man becomes lost, — merged into the God-mind, which 
is the Infinite Intelligence individualized in man. The con- 
fused mind of man is all that hangs between himself and his 
God. It is the veil in the Temple which must be rent in twain. 

In the light of this New Age, God is causing flash-lights of 
Truth to be revealed to man. Higher Metaphysics is that 
flash-light which assists man to eliminate from his conception 
the false ideas of carnality, that the Real may become evident 
in expression. 

The Higher Metaphysics does not deal with thoughts in any 
way, as they are the product of the carnal mind; and the 
carnal mind will become merged into that which is the Real, 
the Infinite Intelligence. This brings man into the state of 

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illumination where he knows, even as God would have him 
to know. To attain unto this full illumination, man merges 
from the carnal intellectual concept into the Divine concept. 
This is before man. Attain thereunto, brothers, and thou 
canst rest in Peace. 



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PART TWO 




PART TWO 

Lesson 1 
THE HIGHER METAPHYSICS 

"God Rests in Action" 

S God rests in action, man, to express God, must rest in 
action. Here is where the learning process comes in. 
Knowledge is necessary to each individual ere he can 
understandingly place himself in harmonious rhythm with the 
vibration of the Infinite ; and, thereby, become attuned under- 
standingly, so he can live day by day, "as unto the Lord.'' 

Man through deep devotion at times touches the chord 
which causes him to vibrate in such rhythm that he is filled 
with ecstasy ; but often as the outer things claim his attention, 
he looses this conscious link, and sinks back into the previous 
state with only a sweet memory of having touched the Divine 
Chord. 

Through study man gains knowledge which, when guided 
by wisdom, brings him to the understanding which enables 
him to live in such close rapport with the Infinite, our Father- 
Mother-God, that he, vibrating in that vibration, is in accord 
with the Essence Divine ; and the God-conscious Beings, who 
are unceasingly and untiringly about the Father's business, 
come to assist the student-devotee as they move along the 
Path. 

God is Life. Life is Action. Life is ceaseless action. When 
man gleans the light sufficiently clear, so he can understand- 
ingly become Conscious Life, he then enters into the Ocean of 
Life Essence, which is Action ; and he understandingly abides 
there. Then it is man, too, "Rests in Action." 

To attain this state of Enlightenment, man has penetrated 
the mist and crossed the line which ever lies between the rela- 
tive — that which seems to be the real — and the Real — that 
which God is in expression. 

The Higher Metaphysics assists man as he passes onward 
toward final illumination; as he, through understanding the 
working hypothesis, ever remembers to, through and by 
denials, erase all false beliefs and conceptions from his mind. 

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In fact, little by little, the carnal concept of man's self is 
washed out, and in its place comes the perception of the Real 
Self. That which God caused to become manifest, and is 
destined, sometime, to stand redeemed, and to express the 
glory of God. 

We read in Genesis, the first chapter, that "God created 
man in His image and likeness," and gave man dominion 
over the earth. This means man's outer, or carnal mind and 
body. The body, being the shadow of the beliefs in the carnal 
mind, the student can see to erase the false and undesirable 
beliefs from the outer mind, the body necessarily changes ; as 
when the cause is removed, the shadow must change. 

When man reaches the place upon his path, where he is 
becoming the ripe fruit upon the carnal tree, then it is, when 
be cleanses his outer mind, through and by denials, that the 
One Mind, — God's Mind, will become enthroned; and, finally, 
the carnal mind is gone and he lives in the Consciousness 
Divine. This is the illuminated state of a Sage; and he 
mourns neither for the living nor the dead. Death is a portal 
through which man passes into a broader life and greater 
freedom. Birth is stepping across the portal into limitation. 
Birth and death are the pairs of opposites which the Illum- 
ined Sage no longer sees upon his Path, as he has passed out 
from the great forest of illusions, — carnality. 

As man nears the edge of the elusive forest, he begins to 
learn that God, the Omnipresent Aum, "Rests in Action." 
Man, having grown weary from his long dwelling in Maya, 
feels the desire for inaction. This is the carnal deceiver — 
or adversary; and, if man will listen to its stupifying voice, 
he will succumb to stagnation. This is the beginning of old 
age, and ends in death to the outer body; as stagnation is 
death. 

Let the inflow and outlet of a lake become blocked, and soon 
there is a stagnant pond of water; and fish, bird or reptile 
can no longer drink it. Open the outflow and inlet, and soon 
the water is pure again. 

Life is Action. Stagnation, or inaction, is death. By action, 
we do not refer to the outer action of the body or mind ; but 
inner understanding concerning the Eternality and unchanga- 
bleness of Action as God. This, being God's natural state, 
He rests in it. When man has the full Light, he, too, will 
understandingly rest in Action ; as this is Immortality. This 
state is calmness, peace, serenity, harmony, Love; yea, it is 
God-Consciousness. 

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Wisdom 

HERE is a mystery, in the Realization of the Truth, to 
the uninitiated. 

It is easy for man to learn how to cleanse his mind, 
if he so desires. Then the next step is to learn how to con- 
centrate his mind, in the cleansed mentality ; that it cease, 
while he is in this practice, from creating thoughts. "When man 
learns, that all the thoughts which the carnal mind creates are 
of the earth, because the carnal mind in man knows only of 
the carnal man, his life and environments, which is as unstable 
before the God-conscious man, as the stubble is before the 
approaching fire ; then he will perceive the importance of con- 
centration. For man to become a conscious individualized 
son of God, it is absolutely necessary, that he learn to bring 
his outer mind, which is the carnal mind in man, into subjec- 
tion to the Soul-Ego, or Real Self consciousness, ere he moves 
out into the labyrinth of God's eternal varities of the Divine 
Mysteries, which have remained hidden from the unawakened 
man from the never beginning eternity. 

If man has not the Spiritual teaching in connection with 
the awakening and cleansing of his mind, and the concentra- 
tion thereof, which brings him into the Spiritual side of his 
Being, where he is taught until he desires the New Birth, or 
Spiritual Awakening, he may think the mind, and the 
thoughts of the carnal mind are the power, — he having learned 
that the thoughts of his carnal mind are ladened with power 
for good; — he may also learn this same mind can use its 
thoughts for harm, or to influence others' minds contrary to 
their desire; and sometimes, before some of the earnest stu- 
dents have had the proper spiritual instructions, they believe 
it to be right to use their power, which they have learned is 
in their carnal mind and its thoughts, unwisely. In so doing 
they are injurious. We are informed that many of the Atlan- 
tians understood this art. 

The carnal mind is not permanent ; because it is to be, and 
will become, merged into the God Mind, which in reality is 
the only mind. 

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When man works from the premise of the carnal mind, it 
is Mental Science, and has not the Christ within it. 

If the student is deeply in earnest, he will soon learn the 
folly of that mode of procedure; because, all thoughts sent 
from the mind, ladened with the desire to limit, harm, or 
destroy another, in the unerring Law of Compensation, will 
return to the one who created them ; if not today, in some other 
day; for the Law of Cause and Effect is ever in operation; 
and Jesus Christ said, "Man would pay even unto the very 
last farthing," and their fruits will come into expression 
within themselves and their world. 

It is well for all to know, that it is impossible for one to 
escape the effect of an unrighteous thought, sent out malic- 
iously ; for it will return. It acts in that "Law of Cause and 
Effect," which is, "As you sow, so shall you reap." No men- 
tal maneuvering can set this aside. It may form a protection 
for a time, but all things mental will crumble ; and the Law of 
Karma will not cease, "Until man has paid unto the very last 
farthing. ' ' 

This is the place where the tempter seems to get control of 
some before they are Spiritually Awakened. 

In the Bible this same thing is called by different names, 
the magicians of Egypt endeavored by their incantations to 
reproduce the miracles of Moses, and, up to a certain place, 
they did so; but they came to the limit of their power; and 
they said, "Of a surety this is the hand of God." 

The Prophets of Baal endeavored to prove that their many 
gods were as great as the One God which Elijah trusted, and 
prayed to ; but they failed ; their 's being the gods of the carnal 
mind's conception. 

Elijah had burst the bounds of his carnal mind, and made 
the Realization of the One God, and that He was his very life. 

In India, this same power of the carnal mind is called Black 
Magic. All of this power is carried on in the carnal mind ; it 
matters not who it is that thus does. The carnal mind is 
not regenerated. Therefore, all of this, be the object what it 
may (when the mind is used to harm mankind), is done in the 
darkness of ignorance of the Christ Truth. 

No man, when the Christ is born in his consciousness, will 
ever desire to do thus. Until the awakened man, whose mind 
only is quickened, is born again, he may be using the scientific 
application of the Truth, in a mental concept only. However, 
if he is in earnest, he will soon see that he is giving a stone, 
when man asks for bread. 
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Man to come into the place, where he can have the Realiza- 
tion at all times, so vital that the appearance of disease (which 
seems to be), vanishes in answer to prayer, finds it is neces- 
sary to learn concerning the New Birth; then tarry until he 
has received it. He then has the Christ Mind expressing in 
him, and the Spirit of God, that Spirit which is God, estab- 
lished in his consciousness by that influx of Divine Power, 
which none but God understands. 

Man ever knows thereafter, that he is a son of God ; and in 
his prayer, meditations and moments of trustingly abiding, 
returns thanks to the Infinite, the Father-Mother-God. 

He Realizes the Truth of God's Being, the Truth of his 
Being, and the Reality of the Spiritual Universe. 

It is when man fully Realizes the Truth, that his heart 
overflows with gratitude, and his lips sing praises to the Infin- 
ite, our Father-Mother-God. 

When man comes into the Spiritual Illumination, he per- 
ceives that the Higher Metaphysics is only for man's own use 
within his own mentality, that he may sweep and garnish it 
so that the God Mind may thereafter operate there. 

There are many steps upon the Path, from the time man 
awakens, until he reaches the Mountain Summit of Illumina 
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Lesson 3 
THE HIGHER METAPHYSICS 

One Presence 



vPSp^N the Realization of the Truth as it IS, concerning 

fertile ^ 0( ^' * n "^"* s ^ u ^ ness ? His Oneness and Love, and man 
iSss&J as the expression of God, and the Spiritual Universe ; 
and that One Law only is in operation in and through all, — 
One intelligence, and that the Infinite, man is consciously upon 
the Sacred Path, which the Spiritually awakened have pro- 
claimed from the most ancient times even unto the present. 

It requires the awakening, then the searching for the Light, 
then studying until understanding is reached, then the bring- 
ing of it into outer expression through Realization. 

Concentration, meditation, reverence, devotion, apprecia- 
tion, and these expressed in prayer, bring man into rapport 
with the Omnipresent God; and, in proportion as man comes 
into the Realization of the Truth, — the One Presence, — he 
lives in the God Law, it being the only Law. When man is 
understandingly in rhythm therewith, he is in the Will of 
God, and all things, "Work together for his good/' when man 
learns how to let them. ' ' Be still and know that I am God, ' ' 
spake the voice of the Cosmic to an attuned Prophet, in the 
long ago. 

Not sentimentally, but through understanding, abide in 
the One Presence. Be still and meditate upon it, and you 
will become conscious of the One Presence, which is God. 

Solomon said, "With all thy getting, get understanding." 
In understanding you perceive there is no reason for fear; 
as, in the One Presence, there is naught but God and His 
manifestations. 

Then in abiding confidence man can "be still and know 
that God is!" Also, "That there is none beside Him." 

In that concept of the Absolute Truth, man loves his fel- 
low man, as he meets him upon life's highway. "He does 
unto his fellow man, as he would have him do unto him. 1 " His 
dealings are honest and fair with those whom he does busi- 
ness; because he remembers in the Truth, or Real of their 
Being, they are his brothers. 
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The Christ Illumined man will never permit any of those 
who are living in the carnal mind concept to defraud him ; as 
he, perceiving the one God Law, knows it must balance evenly ; 
and, permitting one to defraud him, or he defrauding another, 
each brings the balance to an uneven balance and the Law 
ceases to act perfectly. 

Man, understanding this Law of the Cosmic, perceives he 
cannot gain anything in this Law for nothing ; there must be 
the recompense. 

Jesus Christ, Gautama Buddha, Krishna and all other 
Divine Incarnations were in the Cosmic God Consciousness; 
and in this Cosmic Illumination they lived in the very Heart 
of the Cosmic, — the Omnipresent God. 

This Heart, being Love, it multiplies to man from out the 
Essence, — the One Presence. Then man has fulfilled the 
Law, and Law has merged into Love. In this consciousness, it 
being Love, man lives the golden rule, and * ' does unto others, 
as he would have them do unto him. ' ' This masterful state 
of consciousness forgets self in its desire to assist mankind. 

Truth necessarily is taught in paradox; we say there is 
but One Presence ; then we speak of the Son of God. 

The Son of God is the Infinite in individualized form; The 
Infinite is the Father-Mother, the impersonal, God. 

When man catches a realization of this, the fetters fall. He 
is, then, no longer bound by the carnal beliefs. He walks the 
earth, a conscious son of God. Being conscious of his Soul 
freedom, he peacefully, lovingly and reverently abides in the 
very center of the Omnipresent God. 

Man, ever carrying his balance in this illuminated state, 
is a law abiding citizen; and ever has respect for the law of 
the land. Remembering that Jesus said, "Render unto Caesar 
the things that are Csesar's and to God the things which are 
God's." 

Fanaticism has no place in Truth ; it only proves man's lack 
of understanding of the Great Truth, — the One Presence. 

Peter in his zeal may have been called fanatical; but that 
is the record of a disciple who is studying and searching for 
the Truth. Peter did not perceive the Truth within him, 
until the day of Pentecost; and after he was endowed with 
power from on high, by that wonderful experience, when he 
was baptised in the Holy Spirit; and the Comforter, which 
Jesus had promised, came within him to abide. Peter spake 
boldly, and with power thereafter; but not with fanaticism. 
This is acting in the guidance of the One Presence, which is 
the Living God. 

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Then, be faithful at all times to that inner voice which 
ever speaks the words of wisdom required. It is necessary 
that man surrender his carnal mind before he can distinctly 
hear the sweet silent voice of the Over Soul, — to his Soul ; and 
understand its language. 

Man, being an individualized expression of the Infinite, and 
expressing in that Presence, when man becomes conscious of 
this, he will move serenely along the Path ; and in contentment 
live in the Realization of the Truth of his Being, and of the 
One Presence. 

Man's mentality is a perfectly attuned instrument, ex- 
pressed by God Himself. Man can permit the carnal mind to 
operate in and through it, and rule him with a rod of iron. 
As long as this mind is the ruler, man is bound to the "Wheel 
of Birth and Death. 

Through understanding man can cast the accumulations of 
false beliefs from his mind through denials; and then affirm 
the Truth of the Allness of the Omnipresence which is God, 
until God giveth the increase, and man realizes his True 
Being in God. 

In the One Presence which is God, there is Peace, Love, 
Harmony. In proportion as man perceives this, he lives in 
the Realm of the Real. 

0, Living Presence Divine! 
"We desire to feel thy throbbing Heart, 
As it pulsates throughout the Universe ; 
Quickening the heart of every living thing. 



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Lesson 4 

THE HIGHER METAPHYSICS 

Bounty 



^AN, being the manifestation of God, is in expressed 
form, and is living in the world of expression. 
The Universe, in which God placed man, is bounti- 
ful. It is Bounty, because the Omnipresent Essence is there, 
and it is from this that the bountiful supply of God's bounty 
to man comes forth. 

The Spiritual Universe is God's storehouse; and, if man 
were spiritually illumined in the fullness of Eealization, the 
magnitude of God's bounty would be more wonderful than 
man's limited mind can comprehend. 

The student-devotee who desires to apply the rules of that 
principle, which brings into evidence that which is desired, 
stands upon the solid foundation, ''The Truth Absolute." 
There, calling to remembrance the Omnipresence of the 
Bounty of God, and that he is heir there unto, he abides in his 
Divine Inheritance. 

Should lack of any good thing present itself to you for 
recognition, accept it, not as a reality; but instead of giving 
it a hearty recognition, renounce it as unreal. As it does not 
square with the fundamental principle — God, refuse it a rest- 
ing place in your mind, and, if loss seems inevitable, deny its 
reality, because, in the Omnipresent Ocean of God Bounty 
and Love there can be no permanent loss. 

The Spiritual Universe is Spirit Essence, eternal and un- 
changable; and Bounty with its abundance is everywhere 
in evidence. When the opposite announces its presence, even 
if it seems so real that fear chills you, stop! and from the 
Rock of Truth, God, look into it boldly. Then deny fear from 
your mentality until all is removed. You will then be calm. 
Then affirm the Truth of your Being, and affirm that you abide 
in God. 

After denying the reality of fear, lack, or unsuccess or 
bad luck, or loss; then get down in earnest and affirm the 
Omnipresent God; and the Bounty that is; and that God 
caused you (man) to become an individualized manifestation, 

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a divine man in expression; and placed you (man), "The 
crowning glory of God," in the midst of God's Spiritual Uni- 
verse, and said, "Man is heir to the bounty herein." 

When the mentality is filled with the consciousness of the 
Truth; then express your unselfish desire to the Father. 
Then it is, man can talk familiarly with the Father, knowing 
God, the Father, can in His great grace act in the spontaneity 
of the pulsating Heart of the Living God ; or in and through 
the Law of Action, which is in ceaseless action throughout 
the universe; and expresses in the outer garb called nature. 
Call to remembrance that Law which caused the life germ in 
the grain of corn that is planted in the earth to stir, and burst 
its encasement ; then to pass through the dark earth and greet 
the sunlight. Then you can perceive, "All things are pos- 
sible with God," in His great Love, Law and Power. 

Denial of lack washes that belief from the mind. The 
affirmation of the Truth of the abundance of God's Bounty 
is the method to bring the consciousness of this reality into 
expression within man's conception, into realization; and, 
even though man's bountiful supply may remain in the invis- 
ible, or unmanif est, be not disturbed, neither permit your faith 
to weaken; but learn a lesson from the kernel of corn. 

In speaking the prayer in the name of Jesus Christ, you 
are using an occult law; because the name means manifesta- 
tion, or, coming into expression here and now. This is the 
name of the conscious manifested Son of God. 

In the Bounty of God, there is abundance for all. There- 
fore, when man has illumination strong enough to bring him 
into the Realization of the Absoluteness as it is, he can per- 
ceive the Key which touched the spring of the opulence of 
God, which Jesus used when He fed the multitudes. 



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Lesson 5 

THE HIGHER METAPHYSICS 

Love 

]T. JOHN said, "God is Love." When man perceives 
this, he can look into the Infinite with confiding trust, 
5£j turn to the principle which solves all problems, and 
fearlessly proclaim the Omnipresence of God Love. In the 
Presence of Love, man expresses his perfection, his righteous- 
ness, his purity ; and man feels that nobility which is the very 
Presence, ' ' In which he lives, moves and has his being. ' ' 

There is no hate in Love. When man has reached the illum- 
ination into God Love, he has broken all barriers from his 
concept, and he, then, in the Realization of freedom of Soul, 
expresses mastership ; as all Law melts before the consciousness 
of God Love, and man stands redeemed, in the Essence Ocean 
Divine; at-home-in-God ; man's permanent abode. 

When man has the Love, which is God, in operation in and 
through him, he will then become conscious of his Eeal Self, 
that Divine Being whom ' ' God created in His Image and Like- 
ness. ' ' He then will move erect and look into the depth of the 
blue sky and listen attentively to the song of the birds and 
appreciate the landscape, dressed in green and decorated with 
the flowers of many hues ; as all now speak to him of God, the 
Omnipresent Love. 

In Love Divine there is nothing but Love, and man can feel 
that Peace ' ' which passeth material understanding. ' ' 

The Love Essence is God in His impersonal or unmanifest 
form, that state of repose before creation came forth into 
expression. 

Man the manifestation, or individual expression, of the 
Infinite, lives and moves in the Ocean of Love, as the fish lives 
and moves in the ocean, or the bird in the air. 

When man has become fully awake, and Realizes he is a son 
of God, he will perceive that man, ' ' The image and likeness of 
God ; ' ' is a divine man. 

Then the Love, which is God, will manifest in man. The 
human love is not considered here, it being that which abides 
in that land whose shores are shifting sand. 

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It is well for the student-devotee to understand distinctly 
between the human love and the Love which is God Love, the 
Ocean Essence of the Omnipresence, God ; — Love. 

When God Love is fully expressed in the individual, per- 
sonality will have departed from his concept. He then with 
the eye of vision pierces the veil and lives in the recognition of 
God's perfect universe; amidst the individual expressions of 
God; and in the bounty which abounds at all points where 
his Path may lead. 

In Love Divine bounty abides, beauty expresses, and every 
living thing is in rhythm with the Living, Loving Heart of the 
Living God. For man to come into the clear perception of this 
he necessarily must cleanse his mentality of carnal beliefs and 
confusions, that he may perceive there is no dividing line, 
between man and God, only the carnal mind concept. 

When the heart is touched to such a depth that the Soul's 
Self is astir, and the mentality is cleaned ; then it is that man 
walks in the ever green fields of the Eternal God; and Love 
whispers the silent song of the Over Soul, — to the Soul of man, 
and he responds in rapture grand, and vibrates Love, yes, the 
Love that is God. 

In Love Divine bounty abides ; and man, through the Christ 
Illumination, abides in Love Divine, and perceives its bounti- 
ful hand provides his every need ; he also knows the needs of 
his brothers are supplied. 

In this state of Spiritual concept, man in kindness remem- 
bers his brothers who need the encouraging smile, or hand- 
clasp, or a prayer. 

In Love there is trust, abiding confidence and contentment. 
This is the state of the Real man, the Divine man of each one. 

If the appearance is other than this, use The Higher Meta- 
physics until the mentality is clear of carnal false concepts, 
by denying their seeming reality. Then affirm the Truth of 
Being into Realization. 

Remember always that Jesus Christ is the way-shower, our 
Elder Brother, and He spake the prayer that cast out the evil 
spirits, which raised the dead — as Lazarus, the widow's son, 
and others ; as well as the spiritually dead. 

When Nicodemus came to Jesus, although a learned man, 
("a ruler of the Jews") he was dead as to spiritual things. 
Jesus said to him, "Ye must be born again." Those words 
were the notes which awoke Nicodemus. He asked, ' ' How can 
it be ? How can a man enter the second time into his mother's 

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womb and be born?" We can see by these questions that 
Nicodemus had not the full awakening ; Jesus answered, ' ' Ye 
must be born from above." 

Man will not fully understand the Love, which is God Love, 
until he is born from above. This is the Baptism of the Holy 
Spirit. 

After man has received the New Birth he knows his at-one- 
ment with the Father. Before this he accepts it as a great 
Truth by and through Faith. 

After this change has taken place in man, he forever knows 
that he and the Father are inseparable. Then he realizes the 
Oneness of Father, Son and Holy Spirit; he then no longer 
doubts, because he knows. 

Then in confiding trust, he abides in the Presence of God 
Love, and Realizes he is an expression of God Love, and his 
abiding place is the Ocean Essence — Divine Love. 



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Lesson 6 
THE HIGHER METAPHYSICS 

The Christ Consciousness 

JHEN man is born again and the Christ Consciousness 
is expressing in him, he may believe he has accom- 
plished his work, and that he now can sit down ; how- 
ever, he will soon discover his work has just really begun. 

Should a student feel a lethargy overtake him, he should 
arise and stand firm and strong upon the One Rock, — The 
Absolute Truth. 

It is well for man (symbolically speaking) to enter the 
silence in a standing attitude ; and, in that silent chamber of 
the Infinite, which is ever present, retire into the silent cham- 
ber of his own Soul. In this silent communion with God, real- 
izing the Truth, man can shake off any lethargy, be it called 
by any name it may, by denying its power and reality while 
realizing the Truth of Being. 

Sometimes the new born man has so many seeming trials 
that he will find it necessary to do as Jesus did wl^en tempted 
by the adversary. He commanded the tempter (the carnal 
mind's beliefs, fears, doubts and anxieties), to depart; — "Get 
thee behind me, Satan. ' ' Should any one become discouraged, 
or even expect to fully escape the testing time, when he sees 
the Great Master did not escape ? 

Here is where man begins to ' ' Hew to the line. ' ' 

Isaiah said, "The grass withereth, the flower fadeth, but 
the word of our God shall stand forever." Is. 40:8. 

"But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their 
strength ; they shall mount up with wings as eagles ; they shall 
run and not be weary; and they shall walk and not faint." 
Is. 40:31. 

"Keep silence before me, O islands; and let the people 
renew their strength; let them come near; then let them 
speak; let us come together to judgment." Is. 41:1. 

' ' Fear thou not, for I am with thee ; be not dismayed, for 
I am thy God; I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; 
yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteous- 
ness." Is. 41:10. 

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Isaiah, having pierced the veil of carnal illusion, could 
receive the revelations which God desired him, as God's 
Prophet, to give to the men of earth, that they might learn 
the way out from the forest of illusions. Not that God is a 
God of wrath ; but that man may glean the fullness of Truth 
and learn that God is Love. 

Besides, being that indwelling Presence, which is the Divine 
man, the Real Self of each man, God is that over-shadowing 
Presence which, though invisible, ever responds in answering 
man 's prayer. 

In the full Christ Consciousness, man appreciates the 
Father; and, in humility, stands in reverence in the Presence 
of the Greatness, the All-ness and Absoluteness of the Infinite. 
Then it is that he can thankfully say, "Father, I thank thee, 
that I, an individualized expression of thyself, have solved my 
problem, and have arrived at Home." 

Man, to become en rapport with God and His perfect crea- 
tion and remain there, must vibrate in rhythm therewith. 

Life is Action. Stagnation is death. Then, to live in con- 
scious unity with God and His Spiritual Universe, man must 
ever be in action in the Spiritual Law while it is operating 
in and through him, and the Holy Breath is breathing him. 

When all men arrive at that state in conscious understand- 
ing and spiritual abiding, it will be as Isaiah prophesied. 

' ' The lamb and lion will lie down together, and a little child 
shall lead them. ' ' 

Innocence, Purity, Love and Peace will then abound. May 
that day speedily come ! 



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Lesson 7 

THE HIGHER METAPHYSICS 

Realization 

IV'ER remember ; it is the Realization of the Truth that 
I brings the fruitful results. 

Man can make statements of Truth, hold good 
thoughts, or pray, and he will gain very little until he comes 
into the realization of the Truth. 

When man Realizes the Allness of God, His nearness, power 
and perfection, and that man is an individualized manifesta- 
tion of this, that he is living in this very Presence, that God's 
Law is ever in operation, and that God giveth the increase, as 
the water fills the vacuum, from which the pail of water was 
taken, then has he achieved the fruitful results. 

So, the Substance — Spirit — of God becomes evident in 
Realization; and health takes the place where sickness was; 
joy, where sorrow ; bounty, where lack seemed to abound ; and 
life fills the place of death. 

Realization is a meaningless word to the one who has not 
experienced it. 

Jesus said, "Ye shall know the Truth, and the Truth shall 
make you free." When man is born into the Spirit Concept, 
he must gain understanding until he "Knows the Truth." 

When man knows the Truth he will have the Realization 
thereof ; and, when man has the Realization full and complete, 
he knows the Truth. 

When man awakes and perceives he is living in and express- 
ing something quite the opposite from that which is God, 
man's work really begins, that he may gain his bearing where 
he is and set about to solve his own problems. 

Man, then, will soon discover there is nothing gained by 
passing through the door called death. 

Realization brings Life into conscious expression and man 
becomes a conscious son of the Living God. Then his next 
step is conscious One-ness of the Great All. This is God Con- 
sciousness, or full Realization. 

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Lesson 8 
THE HIGHEE METAPHYSICS 

Completeness 

EgSfiglJHE message of Truth, which God has caused to be 
»§t2| revealed to the men of earth, is full and complete. 
[SSeaJil When man knows the inner, or Spirit of it, as well as 
the outer, the letter, he can with understanding pierce the veil 
of mist and perceive the Omnipresent God, which is complete- 
ness. 

When man is taught in The Higher Metaphysics to deny 
the reality of sickness, pain, poverty, age and worry, because 
they are not the Real, the Permanent, it is necessary that a 
student understands clearly concerning this, ere he has the 
illumination which delivers him from the thraldom of the 
carnal man's life, as he lives it upon earth in the midst of 
carnality. 

Why did God choose the Hebrew people as His chosen 
people ? 

Because they were one-pointed, in this, they believed in one 
God. 

God had dealt with other peoples all down the Ages, accord- 
ing to their ongoings in the cyclic events of the family of men 
as they lived in the carnal web of illusions. 

So we see God permitted the Hebrew people to work out 
their problems as a nation or people, and the history of their 
ongoings was kept step by step ; this is called the Old Bible. 

The Prophets of God were raised up, one after another, that 
the Spiritual Message of the Infinite to the men of the earth 
could come hand in hand with the historical, — the letter. 

The Spirit, being invisible, many, indeed, have caught only 
the letter; but some there have been all down the centuries 
who have caught the Spirit which lies just behind the letter, 
and these have lived close to God and enjoyed that sweet peace 
which comes to the man who can know the very Presence of 
the Father-Mother-God. 

Jesus taught humanity the Message which the Father gave 
Him. He proved the Divineness thereof by the "signs fol- 
lowing. ' ' 

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The Higher Metaphysics 

When Jesus was nearing the close of His ministry He told 
His disciples that He would go from them. He said to them, 
"It is expedient that I go. " 

They, then, had reached the place where they must lean 
upon themselves, — and God, — alone; but He promised them 
He would ask the Father to send the Comforter (The Holy 
Spirit). He added to that promise, "When He, the Spirit of 
Truth is come, He will lead and guide you into all Truth. ' ' 

After the disciples received the Baptism of the Holy Spirit 
on the day of Pentacost, they spoke the Truth boldly, as thej 
had seen it proven. 

This is the dawn of another cycle, the Third Dispensation ; 
and the Spirit of Truth is the Great Teacher. It comes into, 
and abides within, man's consciousness and heart when man 
is born again. 

The quickening comes from above. Then, in the Silent 
Chamber of the Soul, — the heart — talk to the Father-Mother- 
God, that you may receive this wonderful quickening. 

As man moves forward upon the Path he perceives the 
completeness in the message of Christ; and that man's body 
is to be redeemed. 

Jesus proved that if man understood God's message to man, 
from the first chapter in Genesis to the last in Revelation, he 
could see that he has not completed his individual problem in 
the school of experience until he has mastered each law of 
the carnal illusions, which binds man to the Wheel of Birth 
and Death. 

This man does through insight, perception and perseverence. 

Thus man, if a student-devotee, and in earnest sufficiently 
deep to study, pray, meditate, concentrate and live the Life as 
unto righteousness, can see that the whole web of Truth, com- 
plete and perfect from the Garden of Eden to the Redeemed 
Son, is for the individual ; and that each and every man must 
work out their own salvation — or solve his individual problem. 

The Message of Truth is complete; and, when man has 
solved his problem and worked it out within himself, he is, in 
consciousness, a complete son of the Living God. In this con- 
sciousness of completeness, man lives in Peace, Contentment 
and Divine Satisfaction forever more. "So God created man 
in His own image ; in the image of God, created He him ; male 
and female created he them. ' ' Gen. 1 :27. 

"And God saw everything that He had made, and, behold, 
it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the 
sixth day." Gen. 1:31. 

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We now turn to Revelation. ''And I saw a new heaven 
and a new earth : for the first Heaven and the first Earth were 
passed away; and there was no more sea." Rev. 21:1. 

"And I, John, saw the Holy City, New Jerusalem, coming 
down from God out of Heaven, prepared as a bride adorned 
for her husband. ' ' Rev. 21 :2. 

"And he said unto me, it is done. I am Alpha and Omega, 
the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is athirst 
of the fountain of the water of life freely." Rev. 21:6. 

1 ' He that overcometh shall inherit all things ; and I will be 
his God: and he shall be my son." Rev. 21:7. 

1 ' And the Spirit and the Bride say, come. And let him that 
heareth say, come. And let him that is athirst come. And 
whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely." Rev. 
22:17. 

"The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all." 
Amen. Rev. 22:21. 



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Lesson 9 

THE HIGHER METAPHYSICS 

Mastership 



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ASTERSHIP is a word which can be interpreted in 
many ways; but the wise will not place a relative 
interpretation upon it, being placed here at the climax 
of these instructions; which have been given that man may 
become illumined into the Christ Light, which lights him into 
the one Essence Divine, where he becomes illumined into the 
consciousness of the " Oneness of the All," and the "Allness 
of the One." 

This we term God Consciousness. In this state of illumina- 
tion man looks into the heart of every living thing, and sees 
the One Presence there; his vision being divine, he sees 
through the outer garb of all, yea, he penetrates the depths, 
and lo, he finds One Presence there. What is this One Pres- 
ence? The Omnipresent God which is the center of all, and 
draped in a mantle of nature ; we admire nature in its differ- 
ent garbs, different tones and blending of colors. However, a 
master knows if there were not the omnipresent reality just 
back of nature, there would be no mantle of nature. 

A master understands nature is a lower vibration of the 
Infinite ; as when a planet loses its key-note of rhythm with 
the harmonious vibration of the infinite universe, it thereby 
losing its equilibrium, will finally become disintegrated by the 
intertwining of cross vibrations, and merge back into the first 
cause, the Essence Divine, the Omnipotent God; there to 
remain until one by one each individual atom again becomes 
en rapport with the forming vibration of Life Action. How 
long doth this require? No man knoweth. God is Omni- 
present, God is Love, Life, Action, Intelligence, Power, Har- 
mony, Peace; therefore, a master perceives it matters not 
what the process seems to be, whether destruction or construc- 
tion; as none can stray beyond God's Love and Care; and in 
the Infinite there is a place for all. 

Therefore, it matters not what place any man may be upon 
the Path of experience, even though it is the depth of the illu- 
sive forest ; and he being in the illusion of Maya, may believe 

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there is no God ; his belief has no power to change that which 
is ; and a master knoweth God is right there ; and that, should 
that brother become aroused sufficiently to turn his mind 
within, and be still, he will hear the ' ' Still Small Voice, ' ' the 
voice of God is ever speaking to man; in the mountain still- 
ness, the roaring of cataracts, the desert, or in the great city. 
It is a tender voice, — so tender, the carnal mind must become 
quiet, that man may hear ; when man hears, then stops to lis- 
ten, soon his heart becomes astir; for the Real Self is ever 
desirous to express his consciousness to the outer self, that his 
work may become finished ; for his task is to redeem his temple, 
or lower self. 

Here is where Mastership begins to come into expression; 
there is no mastership for any individual except that which 
God commanded man at the dawn of creation to bring into 
expression; which is the Real Self. "That man which God 
created in his image and likeness," is to master his outer, or 
carnal mind, through purifying it into transparency; and 
bring his body into redemption through enlightenment; and 
Love and Devotion to the great Over Soul, — the Supreme 
Spirit of the Universe. 

The Divine Incarnations of all Ages have expressed master- 
ship. That is, they themselves have overcome the propensi- 
ties of the lower self, thereby elevating it to the place of one- 
ness, where union, or Yoga takes place; when this is accom- 
plished mastership being expressed, man becomes an adept. 

First man, in his ongoings toward full redemption as in the 
fullness of the message of Jesus Christ, becomes the awakened 
one, then the earnest seeker, then the student-devotee, then the 
Enlightned Sage, then Adept ; and man merging into enlight- 
enment becomes a Master. Not over his fellow man, no ! But 
over his outer self, which has kept him so long in the forest 
of Maya ; and bound by chains of Karma to the wheel which 
rolls therein. A master is Redeemed ; and stands in conscious 
illumination in that Realization, as Jesus proclaimed when 
He said, ' ' The Father and I are one. ' ' 

Oneness means unity; there can be no separation in one- 
ness. 

Mastership is conscious Freedom ; through spiritual illumin- 
ation into the consciousness Divine. 

A Master hath nothing more to do with Higher Metaphys- 
ics ; neither Scientific Truth ; he has merged into the conscious- 
ness of the Ocean Essence Divine ; he is one with it, one in it, 

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and it in him; "The dew-drop is in the shining sea, and the 
shining sea within him. ' ' Oneness. 

In this state of illumination, man lives in the world, as one 
in it, but he is not of it; he ever wears a robe of humility; 
although his vesture may be fine linens, or purple velvets ; and 
jewels of value, and sparkling brilliancy may be his; he, a 
Master, ever seeth those things of carnality as fleeting and 
changing; and they have no illusive power to entrance him; 
he is free from their fascinating brilliancy. 

A Master, has overcome, ere he is a Master; and he, to 
remain a Master, expresses his mastership at all times, over 
any illusive temptation of carnality. 

Conscious Mastership is constant alertness, conscious action ; 
in serenity, rhythm, peace and love ; he is anchored ; his heart 
is melted into Love Divine and united with the Cosmic Heart ; 
as the Cosmic Heart beats in Love's vibration into the heart 
of all men, and every living thing; a Master vibrates there- 
with ; and he becomes an objective center for the Cosmic Love 
to vibrate through to the children of men. 

When in the process of man's ongoing upon the Sacred 
Path, he comes to Yogi, where the heart and head are united, 
then he adapts himself through understanding to that which 
the Father desireth of him. And in time unity takes place 
and man is merged into the Ocean Essence Divine and man 
becomes At-one in God ; as the drop in the ocean becomes at- 
one in the ocean. 

The call from the Cosmic Heart is vibrating throughout the 
earth ; the New Age is here, and the Spiritual vibrations are 
refreshing the earth and all living things; and man, "God's 
crowning glory," will ever find he is in the very presence of 
the Loving, Living God. And that He, ever hath a place pre- 
pared for all. 

A Master may stand upon the summit, and some of his 
brothers be afar in the desert; but he knoweth the Father 
ever heareth and answers prayer ; therefore, the master is ever 
about his Father's business; and he prays that the Light of 
God will enlighten his brothers who are in the desert or wilder- 
ness; and the Love that is God, hold them secure until they 
awake, arise, and return Home. 

God's grace is great; His Love Omnipotent; therefore, the 
enlightened ones sing praises to Him, in "Whom all live, move 
and have their being. ' ' 

One by one the individuals cast anchor in the home port, 
the Father's House, — man's destination. 
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Death does not assist man into this port ; but enlightenment 
into the Christ Light, which guides man into the ocean of God 
Love ; where he perceives the Truth of Being, and the Omni- 
presence, Omnipotence and Omniscience of God. 

Mastership ! When man knows the Truth, he is ever desir- 
ous of service ; this is the mark of mastership ; he looks not to 
fruits of action, but consciously abides and radiates his bless- 
ing to all who pass along. 

He in understanding dives into the depth of the deep; 
and there abides ; knowing this is the very Heart of God. 



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